Monitoring Open Work Orders

Use the Open Work Order Queue to review work orders that have enough material to release them, those whose start date is before the available date for the material, those scheduled to start in the future, or all open work orders. The person managing the work orders can monitor this queue to ensure that work orders that are in trouble start on time, and those that have material available are set in process.

Note: For outbound work orders in an RF environment, if an item is short picked, the system removes the amount shorted from the work order. For example, if five items are originally ordered, but only three are picked, the order quantity for the item on the work order step is changed to three.

To review open work orders:

From the Orders > Queues menu, select Open Work Order Queue to display the Open Work Orders Queue screen.
In the Br/Tr/ALL field, enter the branch or territory for which you want to review work orders. Enter ALL to review work orders for all branches and territories.
In the Type field, identify the type of open work orders to review:

Available – Displays open work orders with enough available material to release them for processing.
All – Displays all open work orders, regardless of status.
Trouble – Displays work orders for which the start date is earlier than the availability date.
Short – Displays work orders for which not all of the finished materials have been processed.
Tagged – Displays work orders that were created from sales, purchase, or transfer orders.

Review the following for each work order:

Column	Description
Prt	Determines whether to print the selected work order when you use the Print hot key. Enter Y to include the order in a print batch, or N to exclude it. Note: To set all displayed work orders to Yes, type Y in the first row and use the Set All hot key.
Br	The branch at which the work order was created.
Work Order	A letter followed by a series of numbers that identifies the work order. The decimal point followed by a number indicates the step in the process.
S	The current status of the work order.
Step	The affected step in the process.
Process	The type of work order process to perform.
Avail Date	The date the materials are available for processing.
Start Date	The date work is expected to begin on the process, or the date the materials ship to the vendor.
Comp Date	The date by which the step in the process is expected to be complete.

Press Esc to clear the screen.

More Options for Working with Suggested Work Orders

The Suggested Work Order Queue also offers these options:

To...	Use this hot key...
view a selected order	View Order The Work Order Entry screen displays with the Status view in view-only mode.
edit a selected order	Edit Order The Work Order Entry screen displays with the Status view in edit mode.
view only specific processes, such as painting, or assembly	Process The Process Selection screen displays. Enter the processes to view and press Esc.
change all of the values in the Prt field to match the value for a selected order	Set All
change the order status to In Process and print all orders with the Prt field set to Y	Print
view processes for specific vendors only	Vendor The Vendor Selection screen displays. Enter the vendors to view and press Esc.
view the orders in order of the furthest out completion date	Sort by Comp The system sorts the orders. To view the orders in order of the soonest completion date, use the hot key again.